MIT Sloan Professor Thomas A. Kochan will be launching an innovative new online class to help train labor representatives to negotiate about technology and its impact on the future of work.
If you’re interested in honing your skills at managing people as part of your MBA coursework, you’ve come to the right place: There are great talent management courses to choose from at MIT Sloan.
MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Nathan Wilmers and Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang have won a grant from WorkRise to study how the tasks assigned to low-wage workers affect those workers’ opportunities for wage growth.
Will 2022 be a year that companies take steps toward creating healthier working conditions for their employees? Certainly, the idea is getting attention as the year gets underway.
How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect jobs and society? That question, argues MIT Sloan Professor Thomas A. Kochan, is too important to be left strictly to technology vendors.
On May 25, the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), held a virtual celebration of the careers and contributions of three esteemed IWER faculty members: Thomas Kochan, Paul Osterman, and Barbara Dyer.
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu spoke during a webinar organized at MIT Sloan titled “Ethical Automation: Shaping the Future of Work.”
In an economy with many low-wage jobs, employer-provided training can be an important route to upward economic mobility for workers. But which workers receive training? How do workers obtain new skills?
If U.S. workers could select the characteristics of a labor organization to represent them, what would they choose? That’s the question explored in an intriguing new journal article by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, William Kimball of ...
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Calls For Greater Worker Say In Technology Decisions
